The Regent Hotel was officially opened on 19th August 1819. Proving itself to be a popular place for visitors taking the Spa waters, the Regent saw a number of celebrities ...
This well-known pub is situated at 57, Smith Street and is a popular pub to this day. The earliest record of it as a pub is the 1806 map of ...
1 In 1316 the canons of Kenilworth secured surrender of common rights in a wood called Thickthorne and a pasture called Littlehay which stretched from Sohochale lidgate to the hedge ...
Medieval Wood
This, our hive of voices is a participatory craft project, through which people local to Warwickshire County Record Office are invited to collaborate with Lady Kitt and archive staff to make an interactive library or “hive” of un/undertold stories.
In previous articles, I have given an overview of the Adkins letters available at the Warwickshire County Record Office. However, it is also worth noting Adkins’s career after he retired ...
In the initial article, I gave an overview of Adkins’s career as an interpreter and diplomat with the Chinese Consular Service. However, against the dramatic political backdrop of events at ...
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
Ben Earl’s contribution on this website about Lawrence Sheriff School (LSS) in Rugby brought back memories of my time there during 1941-1946. At the end of his article Ben mentions ...
The Waring family were in the ropemaking trade. They supplied Warwick Castle for over 130 years. Over those years generations of the family trained young apprentices in the trade.
They made ...
This almshouse was founded in 1518 by Sir Robert Throgmorton of nearby Coughton Court. It stands modestly on the Birmingham Road close to the entrance to Coughton Court.
The inhabitants
The original ...
Discover what shopping was like in Royal Leamington Spa from the 1880s to the 1980s.
Using personal stories, photographs and objects from the collection, the exhibition will focus on the many ...
Not an early demo of a Thin Lizzy album, but instead a report into weather of particular savage brutality. On 9th July 1905 a terrible storm swept across the UK. ...
This windmill is a red brick, six storey tarred tower with a marked batter and conical roof, and was built in 1794. About 65 feet tall, it had two pairs ...
